duskiness
51dusk — n. 1. Twilight, approach of night or darkness, edge of darkness, nightfall. 2. Dark color, approach to blackness, duskiness …
52shade — I. n. 1. Shadow, umbrage. 2. Darkness, obscurity, dusk, duskiness, gloom. 3. Screen, curtain, veil. 4. Protection, shelter, cover. 5. Color, hue, tint. 6. Degree, kind, variety, minute difference. 7. Ghost, spirit, apparition, sp …
53gloom — n 1. gloominess, dimness, obscurity, shade, shadow, dusk, duskiness, murkiness, murk; dark, overcast, cloud, cloud over, cloudiness, dullness, dinginess, darkness, swarthiness, blackness. 2. melancholy, sadness, sorrow, woe; moroseness,… …
54shade — n 1. darkness, duskiness, dusk, dimness, lightlessness; shadiness, shadowiness; cloudiness, mur kiness, murk; gloom, gloominess, somberness, tene brousness; obscurity, indistinctness, nebulousness, faintness, vagueness. 2. apparition, specter,… …
55umbra — n 1. shade, shadow, shadiness, shadowiness; dark, darkness, lightlessness, dimness, semi dark, semi darkness, half light, twilight, crepuscule, dusk, duskiness; cloudiness, muikiness, murk, gloom, gloominess, somberness, tenebrousness, obscurity …
56dusky — /ˈdʌski / (say duskee) adjective (duskier, duskiest) 1. somewhat dark; dark coloured. 2. Obsolescent (of a person) having dark skin. 3. deficient in light; dim. 4. gloomy. {dusk + y1} –duskily, adverb –duskiness, noun …
57dark — [adj1] lack of light aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, Cimmerian, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid,… …
58darkness — [n1] place, time that is unlit black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, Cimmerian shade, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade …
59evening — [n] latter part of a day black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black*, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight; concepts 801,806,810 Ant. morning …
60gloom — [n1] melancholy, depression anguish, bitterness, blue devils*, blue funk*, blues*, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor,… …
